The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that a Mr. Mei stopped Jia Cong and invited him to meet a friend, saying that this person had invented an excellent copper wire drawing machine.Jia Cong always felt that something was wrong, so he didn't dare to follow him, so he sent someone to call Chen Ruijin.The guard was about to leave when Jia Cong hurriedly called him back and handed him three packs of snacks.After thinking about it, he said: "You tell the third grandma, just say that the gentleman who makes the copper wire drawing machine is still in love with Fan Meiren, and he is probably responsible for the things I have been busy these days, and a secret work of the Lu country has been involved. Question three Grandma is interested in meeting you. If she is too lazy to go, tell her that I will return later today." The guards responded and left.

All of a sudden Chen Ruijin came to the small teahouse with a bell.Jia Cong explained the story to her in detail, and offered three packs of snacks.After hearing this, Chen Ruijin frowned slightly, glanced at Mr. Mei and said, "Where is it?"

Mr. Mei said, "Zhuzhi Street in the west of the city."

Chen Ruijin thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That's fine."

Mr. Mei then led the way, and the two of them followed with a few guards.Crossing the streets and alleys from the east of the city to the west of the city, it took half a day to walk in circles before reaching a small street.At the end of the small street is a mansion with high walls, which is quite eye-catching among the nearby dilapidated houses.It's just that the house is obviously in disrepair for a long time, not to mention the mottled exterior walls, even the wood of the gate is almost rotten.There are tall trees inside the wall, most of which are pines and cypresses at a glance, and a lot of greenery emerges from some yard inside.Jia Cong jumped off the horse and praised: "It has a sense of history."

Mr. Mei tapped the door knocker lightly three times, and the door creaked halfway open with an extremely loud sound.A hunchbacked old servant appeared inside, and he raised his head to look at Mr. Mei several times.Mr. Mei asked, "Is old Liu here?" The hunchbacked old servant nodded, first pushed the east door hard and opened it a bit, then slowly opened the entire west door.Mr. Mei pushed open the door to the east and looked back at Jia Cong.

Jia Cong bowed his hands to the hunchbacked old servant, stood at the door and took a look.Inside is a rather wide gray screen wall, with a brick carving of five bats facing the door carved in the middle, and two standing tigers carved on both sides, which looks indescribably discordant.Mr. Mei adjusted his clothes, stretched out his right hand and made a gesture of following him.Jia Cong took Chen Ruijin's hand and wanted to move forward.

After pulling it, Chen Ruijin stood still, frowning and said: "I don't want to go in."

Jia Cong blinked: "Then...shall I go in?"

"Don't go in either." Chen Ruijin said, "This yard is dirty, it can't be said that it's dirtier inside, and it's covered in dust again." Her eyebrows were tightened, and she turned her head slightly to look inside for a while, "It's not that we don't have good craftsmen."

Jia Cong touched his nose, looked at Mr. Mei and smiled apologetically, "I'm sorry...then I won't go in today."

Mr. Mei laughed and said, "Mr. Jia is so afraid of guilt?"

Jia Cong puffed out his chest and said loudly, "Fear of your wife is a manly virtue!"

Chen Ruijin glanced at him: "Let's go, it's time for dinner."

"En." Jia Cong bowed to Mr. Mei, "Sorry, we'll talk next time." Turning around, he accompanied Chen Ruijin to the horse.

Suddenly someone slapped their hands twice, and suddenly a dozen figures appeared on the top of the wall, all of them holding guns. The cold barrels of the guns were pointed at Jia Cong and others.Jia Cong shivered: "What's going on!"

Mr. Mei slowly walked a few steps from the inside with his hands behind his back, but stopped at the threshold, and said with a half-smile: "Mr. Yes?"

Chen Ruijin said: "The place is too remote, the house is too big, and the screen wall is too wide."

"Is that so?" Mr. Mei said, "I still thought that Bi An was unusual to you."

Chen Ruijin glanced at the screen wall behind him: "To tell you the truth, I haven't realized that it's Bi An yet."

Jia Cong let out a "huh": "Bi An? The brick tiger on the screen wall? By the way, how do you distinguish between Bi An and a tiger?"

Chen Ruijin said: "Looking back now, even a tiger is not a good match for the five bats." She raised her eyebrows, "Is this the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice?"

"That's not true." Mr. Mei said, "You don't know anyway." He slowly raised his right hand.

He had only raised his arm halfway, and Chen Ruijin said: "I have something to say, I have to tell you immediately to the person above you. I'm sorry I can't tell Mr. Mei, because you don't understand."

Mr. Mei smiled like a spring breeze: "Since that's the case, it's fine if you don't talk about it."

Chen Ruijin said: "I know what your boss wants. If he doesn't listen to me, he may not be able to get it if he talks about himself and his grandson."

Mr. Mei stared at her, and said amusedly, "Can the third grandma pinch her?"

Chen Ruijin said: "I don't know how, and neither does our third master." He said something.Jia Cong looked blank, Mr. Mei looked blank, and everyone else looked blank—not Chinese or English.Chen Ruijin got on his horse, lowered his head and asked Ling Dang, "Ling Dang, did you hear what I just said?"

Ling Dang was also at a loss: "I heard it, but I just don't understand it."

Chen Ruijin said: "You shouldn't understand. I just repeat it according to the gourd painting and I will listen." Ling Dang repeated it crisply.Everyone listened to the second time and still didn't understand.Chen Ruijin nodded, "That's right." He pointed at Mr. Mei, "Follow him in and tell his boss. If his boss doesn't understand, then tell his boss's boss until someone understands."

Ling Dang was young, and only knew how to listen to the third grandma, so she really walked towards Mr. Mei.Walking up to him in a few steps, he looked at Mr. Mei with round eyes, as if saying: This gentleman, you are leading the way!Mr. Mei was stunned for a moment, then shook his sleeves: "Forget it." He turned around and left.Bell followed behind.

Seeing the two of them turn around and go behind the screen wall, Jia Cong glanced at the barrel of the gun on the wall and sighed: "Sure enough, the way of heaven is good for reincarnation!" They did not know how many times they used this kind of formation on others, and now it was their turn. up.Having nothing to do for a while, he also got on the horse, smiled and said to his wife, "Anyway, I'm so busy right now, I'll sing for you~~" Chen Ruijin glanced at him helplessly.

Jia Cong took it as acquiescence, and sang at the top of his voice. "I want to hold your hand like this and not let go~~Can love be simple and harmless~~" "Back to Lhasa~~Back to Potala~~" "The girl on the opposite side look over, look over, Look over here~~" Singing and clapping back to beat the time.Chen Ruijin gently got off his horse and moved away from him, with "I don't want people to know I know this guy" written all over his face.

I sang a dozen or so songs back and forth, enough for the first half of the concert.Then a figure flashed by the screen wall, and Mr. Mei and Ling Dang came back.Jia Cong was roaring affectionately, "I want to meet you again on that boundless road", when he saw the two of them coming back, he immediately shut up, glanced at Chen Ruijin very quickly, then lowered his voice and quickly sang, "Life has been drawn , the tide ebbs and the tide rises." Seeing that Chen Ruijin's expression remained unchanged, she sang in a lower voice and faster, "The distance with you is heaven." Ling Dang couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing.

But Mr. Mei smiled and bowed to Jia Cong: "Mr. Jia, since the third grandma is not interested, let's let it go today. My friend cleans the yard and Mr. Jia is free. It will be the same when I come again."

Jia Cong hurriedly cupped his hands: "It's easy to say!" He pointed to the barrel of the first black gun on the top of the wall.

Mr. Mei smiled and said, "No problem, Mr. Jia just pretends it's okay."

Jia Cong shrugged: "...well, I will try my best." Chen Ruijin nodded to Mr. Mei immediately, and turned the horse's head first.Jia Cong followed behind, Ling Dang and several guards hugged them and left the side street.

Going straight to the main road, Jia Congfang heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the passing carriages and pedestrians.Nai asked his wife, "What did you tell the bell to say? We couldn't understand anything."

Chen Ruijin said: "Sanskrit."

"Ah? Hindi?" Jia Cong blinked and muttered, "You know so many foreign languages..."

Chen Ruijin said indifferently: "What's so strange, the Taoist priest will get more if he is truly enlightened."

"His old man is not a normal earth human at all." Jia Cong sighed, "How on earth did I cheat such an awesome wife like you! I really admire myself." Chen Ruijin gave him a funny look.

Jia Cong knew that it was inconvenient to talk on the road, so he honestly held back and went back to Jia's horse shop.After sending everyone else away, Chen Ruijin went to check the place himself, and ordered the soldiers of the special battalion to guard Yizang's place. Fang dragged Jia Cong to sit in the courtyard, and called the bell to come over for questioning.

Just now, Ling Dang followed Mr. Namei around the screen wall and entered the front yard.The front yard is generally dilapidated, and there is not even a pair of pictures inside and outside the main hall, but there is a plaque hanging on it, which reads "Fair and Bright".Gray walls and bare pillars are indispensable in the hall, and the Eight Immortals Table in the middle has already limped one leg.A thin, bald old man was sitting at the table with a cigarette bag in his hand, looking at the bell and smiling; the bell felt shabby from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

The old man knocked on the table twice with his cigarette bag and asked Mr. Mei, "What's going on?"

Mr. Mei said: "Jia Cong's daughter-in-law has something to pass on to this little girl." Nai glanced at the bell.

Ling Dang was a little scared, and boldly read the words that the third grandma said just now.The old man trembled all over, and looked up at Mr. Mei.Mr. Mei shook his head.The old man took a dozen or so deep breaths, stood up suddenly and squeezed the cigarette bag tightly.After a while, he waved his hand.Mr. Mei let Bell go out.Ling Dang stood outside the front hall and waited, but couldn't hear what was said inside, only Jia Cong howling outside the gate was an extremely ugly little song.Then Mr. Mei came out and led her back to the gate.Inside, she never saw a third person, not even the hunchbacked old servant who opened the door.

After listening, Chen Ruijin ordered her to go down, and told Jia Cong in a low voice: "Just now there is a person named Mei, who belongs to the Supreme Emperor."

Jia Cong took a deep breath: "Huashan Taoist priest?"

"I don't know." Chen Ruijin said, "I'm afraid that apart from the Huashan Taoist, the Supreme Emperor has other trump cards hidden. How did you meet him, tell me again."

Jia Cong said it again honestly, and finally said: "At that time, I felt like I was being tricked. I was looking for Miss Fan, and he got involved with Miss Fan; our family was familiar with the king of Lu, so he took out the money. Lu Wang’s elaboration token; Our electrical laboratory has been stuck on copper wires for many years, looking for a master who can make copper wire machines, he said that his friends can. One person can not only help Fan Meiren to win favor, but also can be a copper pumper. There is a bit of conflict between the two people, and it is unlikely to be concentrated on one person. This person surnamed Mei is like a bait that hit me on the head, and he must coax me to see his friend."

Chen Ruijin looked at him and said: "You know that someone has set you up, but you still stretch your neck to drill in?"

Jia Cong touched his neck: "I'm just curious... what's the origin of that product, and how will he smooth things over if there is no copper wire machine."

"Haven't you ever thought that people dare to say anything, just to coax you away and kill you?"

Jia Cong was stunned, recalling what Chen Ruijin said suddenly at the gate of the house, "You must tell the person above you right away", it was when Mr. Mei raised his arm halfway, he couldn't help shivering: " What kind of grievance, what kind of hatred! The Supreme Emperor wants to kill me?"

"It may not be the Supreme Emperor." Chen Ruijin said, "It's probably Mr. Mei himself or that bald old man who wants to kill you." Nai slightly raised the corners of his lips, "The Prince of Xining took advantage of your weakness and didn't attack immediately, so he died. ?”

Jia Cong shrunk his neck: "Villains also have feelings!" Nai laughed, "If you ask your boss about this kind of thing, it will be useless. What did you say in Sanskrit?"

Chen Ruijin lowered his eyelids and said, "Say you don't see infidelity right now."

"what?"

"There are many kinds of Sanskrit, just like our dynasty has various dialects. When Liu Dengxi trained us, he specially selected a man from Tianzhu to teach us this kind of Sanskrit. At that time, the world was still in the hands of the late emperor, Liu Dunxi acted very cautiously. We have no directory or tokens, and most of us don't know each other, but we know this Sanskrit language."

Jia Cong suddenly said: "This Sanskrit language is like a sign! The Supreme Emperor thought you belonged to Liu Dengxi." Nai touched his chest, "I'll go! I escaped. The Supreme Emperor trusts Liu Dengxi the most. They are afraid that there may be omissions , dare not act recklessly."

"No." Chen Ruijin said, "They wanted to kill you, probably because they checked like the king of Xining, and decided that Jia Cong and the Taiwan government were beyond their control, and there must be other reasons. Now They figured I might be able to catch you."

Jia Cong nodded: "That's right, that's right." Thinking about the matter again, "Where do you think that is?"

Chen Ruijin thought about it: "Qi An is a prison beast. That place is either for trial or for prison."

Jia Cong frowned: "Why do you encounter a lot of messy things every time you come to Shu?" He took a breath, "So, that bald and skinny old man belongs to Liu Dengxi?"

Chen Ruijin said: "Mr. Mei is too."

"Huh? Didn't he understand?"

"He understands." Chen Ruijin said calmly, "I want to pretend that I don't understand."

Jia Cong was stunned again: "Then... he just wanted to kill me on purpose? Does he have any grudge against me?"

Chen Ruijin glanced at him: "There are too many people who have hatred against you. However, we are not allowed to put personal hatred above official duties."

"Then who is he?"

"He can't trust me."

"He thinks you're impersonating?"

"That's not true. If he doubts me, he won't think about my Sanskrit words, just order to shoot, anyway, others won't understand." Chen Ruijin said, "He thinks I can't handle you. He thinks you must There is no doubt about it. This Mr. Mei must have been to Taiwan." After a while, she added, "That bald old man has never been."

Jia Cong thought about it, Mr. Mei must have despaired of "Jia Cong's loyalty", and now he has fallen into a state where his bosses are all confused and he is alone, so he can't help but sympathize: "Poor Mr. Mei."